An authenticated hadeeth narrated by Abu Hurayrah, the Prophet said: “At the beginning of every century, Allah will send to this ummah someone who will renew its religious understanding.”
On a new century day, the first of Muharram 1400AH, the masjid Al-haraam in Makkah experienced a terrible seizure led by a Saudi militant (Juhayman Utaybi) and his men.
The great mosque was seized by a group of 500 men under Utaybi’s leadership, included are several women and children who had joined Utaybi’s movement. A siege lasted more than two weeks before Saudi special forces broke into the mosque.
It was some minutes to start salaatul fajr when the worshippers were interrupted by insurgents who produced weapons from under their robes, chained the gates, shut and killed some policemen who were not listening to them. They took defensive positions in the upper levels of the mosque, and sniper positions in the minarets, from which they commanded the grounds. No one outside the mosque knew how many hostages remained, how many militants were in the mosque and what sort of preparations they had made.
Juhayman claimed his justification for the siege was that the House of Saud had lost its legitimacy through corruption and imitation of the West and in tandem with the hadeeth of the Prophet, the mahdi(renewer/redeemer of Islam) has arrived in the form of his brother-in-law Muhammad Abdullah Al-Qahtani and called on the Muslims in the mosque to give bay’ah(allegiance) to him.
Since we said in the previous episode that the hadeeth of the Prophet indicated the oath of allegiance will be given to Mahdi in the ka’bah, Juhayman and his men gathered at the ka’bah and gave the aoth of allegiance to Qahtaani and ordered others to give the oath of allegiance to him.
It was few weeks after the rites of Hajj; hujaaj were still much present in the ka’bah. People from different countries who doesn’t know what is going on were forced to give the bay’ah to the false Mahdi.
Juhayman’s followers embellished the fact that Al-Qahtani’s name and his father’s name are identical to Prophet Muhammad’s(salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam) name and that of his father, and developed a saying, “His and his father’s names were the same as Muhammad’s and his father’s, and he had come to Makkah from the north”, to justify their belief.
The revolution ended two weeks after the takeover began by the Saudi Special Forces, advised by GIGN French commandos and the mosque was cleared. Al-Qahtani was killed in the recapture of the mosque while Juhayman and 67 of his fellow rebels who survived the assault were captured and later beheaded.
Another fallacy about Mahdi is the 1979 Iranian Revolution:
The Iranians had been Shiites for centuries and their successive tyrannical regimes also have their own palace scholars who justify the attoricites, so Khomeini came and he was a Shiite revolutionist but unfortunately he is a partisan bigot who had also inherited the Shiite bigotry.
The Shiites had been docile and kept quiet of tyrant, they left themselves to be oppressed by tyrant rulers because they believe that Mahdi would soon come to alleviate their suffering, but it was Khomeini who came with the doctrine of wilayatul Faqih, and so they were able to revolutionalise against the shah of Iran who had been using religion to enslave them to submission.
Definitely, there are Shiite scholars who criticise Khomeini because the same problem afflicting the sunni scholarship is equally present among the Shiites, in fact their own is worst as they drifted mostly towards Irjau.
Khomeini was partly influenced by the Ikhwani sunni activism and he personally translated Milestone of sayid Qutb. So the tyrant rulers of the sunni world became afraid that the freedom of Shiites from Shah may be replicated in the sunni world by freeing themselves from tyranny, so the tyrant engaged palace scholars and since the 1979 period they began sponsoring scholars to write against Jamaa’ah,(Islamic societies) protest, Patience when oppressed etc.
Also a fallacy in the appearance of Mahdi is the belief that Imam Mahdi will appear to lead Muslims from the persecution they are suffering in Iraq and Syria, where good Muslims are being persecuted for not joining a sect. And a ruling clan that worships Ali as God.
Some sect of Muslims believe the name of the tribe of Mahdi to be Bani-Kalb; and they claim the present ruler of Syria is from that tribe and hence Muslims resisting his rule are calling for help from Allah.
They have the belief that Christian USA and atheist Russia are both attacking Muslims of Syria. So Allah’s help is very close. In their belief, Imam Mahdi will unite shiites with mainstream Islam and lead them to revolt against satanic world order imposed by USA led NATO.
Some also believed Imam Mahdi will appear around 2033-2030, and he is among us by now in Arabian Peninsula (specifically in Madina or Yemen).
To be continued…